Mr Adesola Olusade, Permanent Secretary in the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) on Tuesday said that the FCT is ready to implement the new National Language Policy, introduced by the Federal Government.
Olusade disclosed this at an end-of-year and award ceremony, organised by the FCT Education Resource Centre (ERC) in Abuja, saying that the programme would help to ensure that indigenous languages of the people would not go into extinction.
Recall that the national policy, recently approved by the Federal Government, makes the mother tongue a compulsory medium of instruction from primary one to primary six.
He said; “FCT is part of the Federal Government, therefore, when a programme is initiated by the Federal Government, what we look forward to is to domestic and implement it.
“The Education Resource Centre will also pilot the implementation of this policy and for us it is a welcome development and we will implement it to the best of our ability.
“We want to see our young ones speak our dialects and whatever it means for us to support that effort, we will give in to it.”
“The FCT is also implementing a programme called 100 by 100, we want to renovate 100 schools in 100 days.
“However, we might be constrained by limited resources but the first phase of the programme will certainly take off before the end of the year.
“We believe a conducive atmosphere will promote learning and the FCT is committed to improving learning environment in the schools,” said Olusade.
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